Live Your Purpose Podcast

Lavar Jacobs was a guest on the podcast earlier this season on episode #10 and he spoke to us about his Breast Cancer Awareness Organization “Not Just October”. We were able to organically collaborate and cover the podcasts first ever live event and Lavar spoke to us about his experiences that lead up to the event.

Ebony Allison is an Entrepreneur originally from Akron, OH. She currently resides in New York City where she is Co-Founder of Bleu Life Media and Director of Content at Bleu Life Magazine. This week we spoke with Ebony about her experiences of what lead her into an aspiring stylist and ultimately molded her into a full time stylist working with artists such as Rihanna, Nipsey Hussle, and the Game....

David McCullar is a entrepreneur and CEO of the First Mental Health Gym “Inception”. David grew up in Detroit, MI in the 8 Mile area as the son of a parents who worked 9-5s and as entrepreneurs. After suffering from panic attacks, insomnia and anxiety he was committed to finding his process of healing. He founded the mental health gym Inception with his father. The mental health gym offers differe...

PART 2 continued...... Justin Carter is a Father, Husband, Entrepreneur and Real Estate Investor. In this episode of the Live Your Purpose Podcast Justin spoke to us about, how like many other black males in America he believed his way of changing his families generational wealth gap was correlated to sports, and after a devastating injury in college and Gods divinity his life would be changed for...

Justin Carter is a Father, Husband, Entrepreneur and Real Estate Investor. In this episode of the Live Your Purpose Podcast Justin spoke to us about, how like many other black males in America he believed his way of changing his families generational wealth gap was correlated to sports, and after a devastating injury in college and Gods divinity his life would be changed forever. Justin received h...

Nita Davidson aka Cousin Nita or Big Cuz as some know her as, is a Real Estate Investor, Licensed Realtor and Inspector here in Ohio.  In this episode Nita discusses the influence of her mother and grandmother introducing her to a love of reading as well as her growth as a woman, leader and future entrepreneur.  Like myself, Nita lived in the City of Akron growing up, but her family wanted her exp...

In episode #9 of the Quarantine Edition special and #17 of season 1. We spoke with @neoncomplex She is an Entrepreneur, Stylist and consultant. She’s styled people from G-Eazy, Chance the Rapper, Courtney Love, T-Pain and Deandre Hopkins. She has editorial credits with Condé Nast which owns Vogue, the New Yorker, GQ and Vanity Fair. Young Stayj as I like to call her spoke to us about growing up i...

In Part 2 DB shares with us his experience of working side by side with Kanye West as his stylist and growing a relationship with the music icon. DB talks about how his time with Kanye would ultimately change his life and how much he learned from him. During Part 2 of this conversation we discuss how the launching of his own brands, Midwest Kids and Darryl Brown were a manifestation of his parents...

In episode #8 of the Quarantine Edition, and #16 of season 1 we spoke with Midwest Kids and Darryl Brown founder and owner. DB gave us his backstory from his parents being the inspiration to his brands, growing up in Toledo, OH as a track star and eventually working as a conductor on a railroad. In part 1 of this conversation DB spoke on the experiences that ultimately gave him the foundation to b...

In episode #7 of the Quarantine Edition series, we spoke with Dr. Tania Lodge, who was an earlier guest this season on episode #4. Dr. Tania Lodge is the Clinical Director of Minority Behavioral Health Group, the community mental health agency in Akron, OH. Dr. T specializes in providing culturally specific mental health services such as, psychotherapy, consultation, and group workshops centered a...

Brandee Wilkinson is a Mother, Wife, and Entrepreneur in Akron, OH.  In 2019 she became the first Black Woman to ever own and operate a funeral home, Wilkinson Funeral Home, here in Akron where she is a Licensed Funeral Director and Embalmer.  In this episode Brandee discusses her early years of having a passion for music and how supportive and loving parents instilled in her and her sib...

Mylan Murphy is a husband, father, serial entrepreneur, motivational speaker and author here in Akron, OH.  Mylan was described as always being independent and creative as a kid.  Growing up with both parents as entrepreneurs, Mylan was exposed to the pros and cons of life as your own boss.  Mylan started his first business and clothing line as a junior high student after his parent...

Antonio Goodwin is a Husband, father, CEO and founder of A Better Cleaning Service. Better known as ABC, his company specializes in carpet cleaning for commercial and residential needs in the Akron and surrounding areas. Like many of us, Tone started out with hoop dreams, but didn’t realize that the exposure of his uncles being hustlers and go getters would have an impact on how he would later beg...

Monte Vales better known as “Speedy” here in the city of Akron, OH is a Father, Entrepreneur and CEO and founder of the #1 cellphone repair shop in Akron Ohio Speedyirepair. He also is the owner of speedyirepair in Atlanta, GA as well. In this episode Monte discusses how his experiences ultimately became his motivating factor to establish himself as a business owner. Like many African American mal...

Lavar Jacobs is a Husband, Father, full time employee and serial entrepreneur. He is the founder of Not Just October, a breast cancer awareness foundation that was created to carry on his mother Kim’s legacy after her passing in 2009. I’ve known Lavar for years and have always appreciated his willingness to be creative and have outside the box thinking despite the opinions of others. His organizat...

Bensky Belizaire is a young entrepreneur and mutual fund employee from Brooklyn, New York. As a child he was ashamed of his Haitian roots due to constant misinformation from mainstream media, not knowing his cultures true history. As a young man he and his family took a 10 day trip back to Haiti where he ultimately describes the experience as life changing. When Bensky was a Junior in college he w...

Yvette Lloyd is a local business woman and entrepreneur in Akron.  She is the owner of Fadia's Womens Program where she empowers and mentors young women on college preparation, finances, career placement, entrepreneurship, and overall health and wellness.  She is also the proud owner of the daycare center Munroe Enrichment Academy.  Yvette is a true hustler in the sense of the...

Marlan Jones is a Husband, Father, full time employee and a Real Estate investor here in Akron, OH.  In 2013 I was living with my great-grandmother to assist her in her elderly years, after an accidental fall she would never be the same.  As a family we decided that providing her with in house living assistance would benefit her the best.  Knowing that seeing this once lively and fu...

Romeo Travis is mostly known to the world as a "Fab 5 member",  childhood friend and former high school teammate of NBA future Hall of Famer LeBron James.  In this conversation we learned how those years as a St Vincent St Mary alum, almost didn't happen, but divine order wouldn't have it any other way.  Rome discusses how his childhood and family values carried him into a successfu...

Devin Joyce is the CEO of Passion 8 event management and travel.  Her company Passion 8 events was selected in the exhibit at the Forbes Under 30 Summit in 2018.  She sat down with us and shared her story as a boss, a leader and overall entrepreneur.  She gave us insight into what she believes makes a great entrepreneur and why having Passion is a key ingredient.  She highlight...

Dr. Tania Lodge is the Clinical Director at Minority Behavioral Health Group, the only black owned state certified and nationally accredited mental health agency in the entire country right here in Akron, Ohio.  She sat down with us here to discuss her upbringing and her personal experiences that lead her to becoming a psychologist.  She broke down the importance of mental health, and th...

Dr. Ciara Dennis-Morgan is the Clinical Coordinator at Minority Behavioral Health Group, a psychologist, yoga instructor, my best friend, and wife. She discusses her upbringing here in Akron as daughter of parents in ministry and how they were intentional on her having a "normal" experience. Ciara shares how she learned the instilling of values through everyday actions, and how loving people...

Swoope is a Grammy award winning artist, rapper, and overall multi talented musician.  He is most known for his accolades as one of the leaders, pioneers, and legends as a Christian Hip Hop artist.  He sat down with us here, on the Live Your Purpose Podcast to discuss his upbringing in our hometown, Akron, Ohio as well as his life as a father, husband, and son.  We touched on h...

In episode 1, we sat down with John Morgan Sr. to discuss his life in full, the man he is today and who he is evolving to become. This episode also served as a way to give the audience insight into John Morgan Jr.  John's father walks us down memory lane and described what life was like in Akron during the civil rights movement up to what became the War on Drugs epidemic in the mid 80s. &nbsp...